Carrion Crow

Carrion Crow, surely, will win awards . . . Every sentence oozes a crushed purple poetry, overripe with devastation and wretchedness . . . If you finish it feeling you might just skip dinner, then you also feel filled with awe for a writer so gifted at conveying this much ick in such luxuriant, refulgent style. * Observer * Carrion Crow may be set in a fetid late Victorian London and couched in lightly brocaded prose, but what lurks within is unmistakably red in tooth and claw, a creature nearer in kinship to Kathy Acker than to Sarah Waters . . richly fecund and adult in every sense of the word. * Guardian * Carrion Crow is a worthy entrant into the contemporary gothic hall of fame . . . Im not sure the pure rancidness of this book will ever totally leave me. * Financial Times * Haunting and vivid, creating that palpable sense of isolation so hard to create. Parry's atmospheric storytelling leaps off the page * Glamour * A surreal and abject little monster of a novel, artful in its exploration of womens unspoken and unfulfilled ambitions, and the transformations they make to try and achieve them * The Skinny * If youre on the lookout for a gothic masterpiece, look no further than Carrion Crow ... a thought-provoking and bold exploration of a toxic mother/daughter relationship set against a darkly gothic backdrop, which shines a light on societal constraints of the time and deals with the expectations laid at the feet of women. * nb Magazine * A brilliantly claustrophobic tale of confinement . . . a cautionary tale of the societal pressures that have left so many women unfulfilled and overwhelmed * Gutter Magazine * A haunting, visceral, insightful, and deeply poignant experience. * Scream Magazine * One of the most important new voices in fiction, with Carrion Crow Heather Parry deduces an unutterable Gothic horror of class and gender from the pages of Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management. A festering Edwardian nightmare dressed in exquisitely tailored language, Parrys vision is magnificent and devastating. * Alan Moore, author of Watchmen * Sublime, wretched, harrowing, glorious. * Kirsty Logan *

Heather Parry is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her debut novel, Orpheus Builds a Girl, was shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year award and longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. She is also the author of a short story collection, This Is My Body, Given For You, and a short nonfiction book, Electric Dreams: On Sex Robots and the Failed Promises of Capitalism, and writes the Substack general observations on eggs. She was raised in Rotherham and lives in Glasgow with her partner and their cats, Fidel and Ernesto.